1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 5, 16 August 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

Ti! sérvice to be held in Pitt Street Methodist Church will be broadeast on Sunday evening. The Rev. W. Walker will be the preacher. A studio concert will follow. The local vocalisi will be Miss Molly Atkinson (mezzosoprano), Mr. R. Stephenson (baritone), while elocutionary numbers will be given by Miss Maisie Carte-Llioyd. . Special recordings will include orchestral, organ, band, violin, and pianoforte solos. Three talks will feature 1YA’s programme on Tuesday evening-‘Motor-ing" (by Mr. George Campbell), "Artistic Physical Development" (by Madame Edith Milne), and "The Lighter Side of Journalism" (by Mr. Haycock). ADAME . HUMPHREY SsTEWARD’S Octet will provide the vocal portion of the musical programme on Tuesday evening. One particularly fine number by the whole party will be "Cherubic Host" (from Gaul’s "Holy _ City’). Miss Mavis Grevait, harpist, ‘will share in the rendition of this item. A second concerted number will be the favourite "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." A fine series of operatie solos ‘will be sung, the soloists being Mrs. Brinsden, Miss Doris Gower, Miss Ida Holmes, Miss ©. Pringle, Miss D. Moore, Miss Alice Taylor, and Mr. Wrank Sutherland. The operas from which solos will be sung will be "Les Cloches de Corneville," "Mignon," "Bohemian Girl," "Gondoliers," "Faust," ‘"Hindoc Song," "Magic Flute," and "Madame Butterfly." There will be a duet from "Norma." Instrumental numbers will be played: by Miss Grevatt (harpist) and the Studio Trio, while there will be a relay of the overture from the Majestic ‘Theatre. On Friday evening Mr. Frank Sutherland will give a further talk on Rugby football.

FRIDAY evening’s programme will open with a half-hour’s relay of a eoncert arranged by Lewis Bady Lid. A studio concert will follow. . There. will be vocal numbers-solos and a duetby Mr. Len Barnes and Miss M. O’Grady. .-Mr. Barnes will sing Rachmaninoft’s "At Night" and Schumann’s "Two Grenadiers." One of Miss O’Grady’s songs will be with flute obligato by Mr. A. Dunn. Mr. Dunn will also play a fantasia from ."TIl Trovatore." The Studio Trio will play

the "Danse Macabre" and Dvorak’s "Slavonic Dance No. 3." A play, "The Monkey’s Paw," and. the Tidal Scene from "The Merchant of Venice," will be presented on Friday evening by the Auckland Dramatie Students’ Association.

" DRAYTON VENABLHS, the popular. baritone, will be welcomed. | on Saturday evening’s programme. He will sing "Love of Shadows," "Bravest Byes," "Ninetta," and "Entre Nous." | Mrs. B. Jellard (contralto) will sing "My Ain Folk,’."My Dear Soul," and "Just Because the Violets." Other voealists will be the Bohemian Duo, singing Maori melodies. Blocutionary | items. will be given by Miss Rhona | Speed, and there will be novelty piano numbers by Mr. Gordon Johnson.

Bright music will be played by the Studio Orchestra. Soman -new artists, including a boy soprano, Master Desmond Casey, will appear on Thursday evening. Master Casey will sing "Only the River Running By," "The Minstrel Boy" and "Love's Old Sweet Song." The other new soloists will be Miss Margaret Beaumont (soprano), Miss Phyllis James (contralto) and Mr. Charles Reader (baritone). They will present a very enjoyable programme, to be augmented by popular ai- ung by the Snappy Three. The Studio Orchestra: will play "Florodora," Luigini’s "Ballet Russe" part 1, "The Phantom Brigade" and Ketelbey’s "Scenes from the Kinema." On Thursday evening at 7.40 Mr. N. M. Richmond, of the Workers’ Hducational. Association, will talk on "The Modern Age-as John Galsworthy Sees It."